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If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
This is just a meme rumor as best I can tell.
The Portland Thorns match was amazing - so incredibly diverse and fun - love! 🤩
🤣 je suis un polyglot! If I study a bit I can verrry loosely get around France, Germany, Mexico…mostly directions and ordering beer lol The essentials
I lived in Quebec until I was like 2 and my Mom thought I was talking gibberish, the neighbor lady was like no, that’s French (picked it up from tv)
😂😂😂
He’d put the ‘bitch’ in ‘obituary’
Nobody on the right will care, but Portland last night was gloriously lovely and quiet as usual. Note that there are no news reports of rioting or large scale anti-government protests right now. Also note how that's going to (very rightly) change when Homan's goons show up.
Bravo
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MELANIA??? Good fucking grief
The truth be told
I can't imagine ever being ready for that.
This is so insanely fucked.
Or perhaps national visibility of someone like a Bronze Star earning Army combat veteran taking a stand against unconstitutional actions by the executive branch is important, no matter their political affiliation.
Yeah, this is right on track with who I thought he'd be.
Real question: Can we even still trust CDC metrics? Thinking about COVID specifically.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
I was so proud to making bouef bourguignon for the first time; got a nice sear on the meat and...that's when I learned not to use ceramic on the stove top.
Sounds exactly like how I learned there is a big difference between ceramic and cast iron dutch ovens.
She was so bad as a rep she couldn't even win re-election here in her own district - I proudly protested and marched in that very district
Also, not "illegal"
I have a guess.😬
The only accurate thing he said here was "Secretary Kennedy"
Once again, being able to profit from it, they are motivated to not solve the (solvable!) problem.
i was told that trump’s modest improvement with black and hispanic men meant that racism had nothing to do with MAGA. oh well.
Trump will die eventually (sooner than later possibly) from natural causes and conservatives are probably already plotting how they're going to try and use some conspiratorial bullshit about it to their advantage.
Probably should get a lot more traction; while Trump is pretending to negotiate cease fires, this adds yet more clarity to where his allegiance lies.
"People get stabbed too, what's next you're going to ban knives?" There have been 34 mass shooting events in the US so far in August. THIRTY FOUR In the entirety of the 2020s in the US there have been 9 mass stabbing events.
If there were any of those, we'd agree.
It is utterly outrageous.
I tried btw to make these numbers relative to actual murder rate and population comparison between California and Mississippi. CA: ~39.2M people, ~4.8/100k homicides MS: ~2.94M people, ~20.5/100k homicides
Imagine you’re choosing between two rooms: Room A: 39,000 people, and 5 people will be randomly murdered Room B: 3,000 people, and 3 people will be randomly murdered Which would you choose? Conservatives wants you to think that Room A is worse.
I read elsewhere that for all of us who are being forced to note/feign underlying conditions to get a vax/booster, that will be used as evidence to deny insurance coverages later. Am I just paranoid, or does that seem like it tracks?
Whenever people say stuff like it's "too soon" after any given mass shooting to talk about gun control, I like to remind them I'm not even responding to this shooting, I'm responding to the decades of shootings we still haven't done a goddamned thing about. Will it ever be time to be serious?
Remember how for years they said Trump couldn't even deploy the DC Guard?
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
🎯 Also honey traps are hugely prevalent for this very reason
RFK Jr was not chosen to preside over US public health and science because he had any qualifications. He had a famous family name and Trump needed his endorsement and supporters. We saw it happen live in this call. That’s why we are here.
I'm a sailor, I sail!
the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world
And sometimes those people are fired for not being shitty enough and replaced with shittier unqualified mediocre people.
Very excited to have stumbled on this account
Trump removing Kamala’s Secret Service detail feels exceptionally bad
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
I've been really struggling with that today; I'm frankly (maybe naively) shocked at how pervasive it is on bsky.
Seems relevant here: newrepublic.com/post/199716/...
They want so badly for her to be on their team.
Struggling a bit with the amount of folks here who are misgendering Robin Westman.
Agree! Sorry to have missed the subtext there; I'm not the best at that :-)
friendly reminder that all transphobes should rot in hell
It doesn't only apply to women however; girls and trans-men can be pregnant too.
I really don't know anything about Doctor Who
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
GOP purposefully pretends to misunderstand rates when convenient. They like to point at crime totals in California, but don't also like to point at CA having the most registered Republicans of any state too.
This seems like a reallllly strong metric against prayer working.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
This scene from Rogue One perfectly sums up the experience of living in America, right now.
Baby steps Craig
I'm super curious but also expect it to be very hard to watch. I still have so many of those scenes etched in my brain.
He is profoundly wrong for this role. Even Mitch McConnell didn't vote to confirm him for fuck's sake
Those are objectively incredible advances.
I keep thinking that if there was a God, assholes like Trump are a test for the faithful that they have all failed spectacularly.
Can we have a national conversation about how the DOW isn't "the economy"?
Counterpoint: no
Oops! I should've checked your bio; this feels even more interesting at the college level. I wonder how common these feelings are at other universities.
Interesting! How old are these students?
I've enjoyed many in my day, though I may not be able to crush one anymore
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
hahaha I've never heard that saying before; love it!
Dems need to fix their messaging; these are purposeful actions by the admin with desired outcomes. They're not smart enough to be playing 3d chess here, they're just doing whatever they want and Dems keep thinking every move is somehow calculated to divert attention from every other move.
Of course the Post repeatedly misgenders her.
Guess what I'm craving now?
Exactly my thought too; well crafted
I watched it for the first time last week and it was pretty darn good.
I only cared in that I thought it was an uninspired redesign. But conservatives “care” in ways I don’t think many of them can articulate, beyond calling anything that feels vaguely threatening “woke.” They’re terrified of identity erasure, and symbolism is often the only language they respond to.
This part.
I share your frustration by the way, but also struggle to find what else can be done; there are currently several gun control bills in the House already, but they are actively squashed by Johnson, et al. So without *Republicans* willing to jump ranks, there's no way to move those.
True, but also the last time Dems held the House they passed a sweeping reform bill that was then blocked by McConnell in the Senate. Our problem is rooted in Senate filibuster rules, and the apportionment in the Senate itself, which will always tilt conservative.
Most often I want to but forget b/c ADHD takes my focus, and then other responsibilities limit my ability to. That being said, I dropped everything a few minutes ago and now I'm working from a brewery.
I'm going to forget to leave the house again today aren't I
I don't know how these people take themselves seriously. Growing up in NoCal/PNW, it was the State of Jefferson, lately it's been Greater Idaho...Six Californias too not long ago lol.
Oh I was wrong, I can hate Trey Gowdy more.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Maybe I’m not overthinking, maybe I’m just regular thinking about stuff that shouldn’t be happening
There is more public evidence that Trump raped kids than there is of this person being a leftist.
Hard agree
She sucked so bad she couldn't win re-election in her own district, so of course imPOTUS put her in his cabinet.
lol "the Schumer"
Exactly, Dems passed a House bill but it (predictably) stalled in the Senate given McConnell would filibuster which needs 60 votes to overcome (nearly impossible), AND Manchin and Tester ("Dems") were both opposed anyway, so the Schumer didn't even have 50 votes.
Finally built up the courage to read this; it is 100% worth it.
Holy crap this looks incredible; squee!
This series was a surprise to me; really loved the first season - season 2 was a bit less so for me but stoked for 3!
Buffoonery.
I cannot. I just can't at all.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
When a major Jewish pub says this with their entire chest take this shit seriously “The question is no longer whether Trump is building a police state. The question is whether Americans will let him finish it — and, like those who watched the Reichstag burn, remain silent as democracy is consumed.”
Can someone please just create an AI Nobel and give it to him like how we give Playskool steering wheels to toddlers in carseats to make them feel like big boys?